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The Latin American bicentennial used as nationalist and populist propaganda

Today news are many personal blog about the bicentennial of the countries of Latin America.
Even CNN has developed special programs for this.
Beyond just and deserved celebration just want to add something to put in perspective:
These Bicentennial only serve as distraction mechanism nationalist.
Governments are mere shift CIRCUMSTANCES.
It is people who celebrated. It’s in them, from their [...]

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Middle East: Rewriting the future. A NATO for the Middle East?

After the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq the U.S. and British governments gave up their excuses about bringing democracy to the people of the Middle East and started slowly talking about their strategic interests in the region. Fighting terrorism and bringing democracy were mere pretexts for military assaults. The Anglo-American game plan exposed itself in the summer of 2006 [...]

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Is Berlusconi’s Power About to Decline?

The whole world is chatting about the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s lifestyle. The news are full of details regarding alleged wild parties in his luxurious residences (see below Villa Certosa in Sardinia.) According to these reports all sorts of women attended these festas, including alleged under-age girls and paid escorts (see above Patrizia D’Addario) [...]

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What do Starbucks and Wal-Mart have in common?

Actually, they have more in common that just this.
Wal-Mart sells cheap plastic crap made in overseas sweatshops.
Starbucks sells (burnt-tasting) coffee that tastes like crap.
Visit Stop Starbucks here.

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Political Blogs More Credible than Newspapers, Say Those Who Read Both

According to research by a Brigham Young University political scientist, people who closely follow both political blogs and traditional news media tend to believe the content on blogs is more accurate.
Professor Richard Davis reports this and other blog-related insights in Typing Politics, a new book published by Oxford University Press.
“Blog readers still get most of [...]

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The Irresistible Spread Of Democracy: Iran

`My two dogs tied to a tree by a ten foot leash kept howling and whining for an hour till I let them off. Now they are lying quietly on the grass a few feet further from the tree and haven’t moved since I let them off. Freedom may be only an idea but it’s [...]

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The Open Source

The traditional business model for companies is to create a product and/or provide a service to customers in order to receive payment and hopefully exceed operational costs to generate a profit. However, what happens when you are not creating a product or service, but instead ideas? How do you make a profit? How can you [...]

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